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dog-poor

/dawg-poor, dog-/US // ˈdɔgˈpʊər, ˈdɒg- //

贫穷的狗,穷人的狗,穷鬼,穷困的狗

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : very poor.

Examples

  • Placed in drinking water, fluoride can serve people who otherwise have poor access to dental care.

  • If so, he has his silence -- on top of poor judgment -- to blame.

  • But most likely it was linked to the way priests identify with the poor in the face of government and criminal abuses.

  • Indeed, although he works here in the old town, he lives in the new part of the city where he walks his dog in the morning.

  • What they actually mean by that is, you know, he actually knows some people that are poor.

  • A little boy of four was moved to passionate grief at the sight of a dead dog taken from a pond.

  • Poor Squinty ran and tried to hide under the straw, for he knew the boy was talking about him.

  • He did believe you, more or less, and what you said fell in with his own impressions—strange impressions that they were, poor man!

  • A was an Archer, who shot at a frog; B was a Butcher, and had a great dog.

  • In withdrawing aside sorrow remaineth: and the substance of the poor is according to his heart.